Personality traits of the enterprise IT application implementation champion

International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 124-139

  Chrusciel, Donald ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change management; Enterprise system; Implementation champion; Organisational change; Personality traits; Significant change

Indexed keywords

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CHANGE MANAGEMENT; ENTERPRISE SYSTEM; IMPLEMENTATION CHAMPION; ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE; PERSONALITY TRAITS; SIGNIFICANT CHANGE;

COST EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 79960817134     PISSN: 14793121     EISSN: 1479313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISCM.2011.041511     Document Type: Article

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